TOP 100 Northern Ireland Companies 2016
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NORTHERN IRELAND’S TOP 100 COMPANIES IN PROFILE
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Springvale EPS Chief executive: Gene Murtagh Pre-tax profits: £4.6m Employees: 113 Pay bill: £3.7m
Lagan Construction Group Chief executive: Conor Loughran Pre-tax profits: £3.6m Employees: 510 Pay bill: £23.3m
BSG Civil Engineering Chief executive: Seamus Gillan Pre-tax profits: £4.4m Employees:52 Pay bill: £3.7m
Springvale EPS c/o Cleaver Fulton Rankin Solicitors 50 Bedford Street Belfast BT2 7FW Tel: 028 9024 3141 www.crh.com
Rosemount House 21-23 Sydenham Road Belfast BT3 9HA Tel: 028 9045 5531 www.laganconstructiongroup.com
6 Bank Square Maghera Co Londonderry BT46 5AZ Tel: 028 7964 3610
Heatons (NI) Deputy executive chairman: Mike Ashley Pre-tax profits: £4.4m Employees: 498 Pay bill: 5,017 38 Market Street Lurgan BT66 6AH Tel: 028 3832 7408 www.heatonsstores.com
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Elite Electronic Systems Director: Jonathan Balfour Pre-tax profits: £4.3m Employees: 183 Pay bill: £3.5m
Tobermore Concrete Managing director: David Henderson Pre-tax profits: £4.2m Employees: 192 Pay bill: £5.1m
Northstone NI Chief executive: Eamonn Sweeney Pre-tax profits: £4.2m Employees: 192 Pay bill: £5.1m
Multi Packaging Operations director: Alan Porter Pre-tax profits: £4.2m Employees: 177 Pay bill: £6.1m
Lackaghboy Road Lackaghboy Enniskillen Co Fermanagh BT74 4RL Tel: 028 6632 7172 www.elitees.com
2 Lisnamuck Road Tobermore Co Londonderry BT45 5QF Tel: 028 7964 2411 www.tobermore.co.uk
99 Kingsway Dunmurry Belfast BT17 9NU Tel: 028 90551276 www.northstone-ni.co.uk
Hightown Industrial Estate Enterprise Way Newtownabbey BT36 4EW Tel: 028 9080 4000 www.multipkg.com
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pringvale is one of the largest and most experienced manufacturers of expanded polystyrene in the UK and is part of Irish building materials firm Kingspan. Material from Springvale EPS is used for insulating walls, floors and roofs in everything from new homes to schools and commercial buildings. A strategic report by the company’s directors said it had grown turnover by 9% to £25.8m through “successfully replacing other insulants in building applications”.
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lite Electronic Systems provides contract electronics manufacturing (CEM) services to market leading companies in the UK and Ireland, as well as internationally. Elite employs more than 250 people across facilities in Northern Ireland and South Carolina in the United States, offering over 25 years of experience and ISO 13485/ISO9001 certification in printed circuit board (PCB) assembly, cable and wiring assembly, complete systems assembly, and test solutions.
agan Construction Group works across Ireland, the UK and overseas. The third-generation family business carries out infrastructure, capital and maintenance projects for public and private organisations. It now turns over around £200m every year, growing through re-investment and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Its civil engineering division has recently been awarded its first major road scheme for Highways England. Lagan Construction International and Lagan US have started work on major airport projects in Cyprus, Gibraltar, Florida (USA) and North Dakota (USA). Last year it acquired H&J Martin.
obermore, which marks its 75th anniversary next year, specialises in the concrete paving and walling products for commercial and domestic markets in the UK and Ireland. Managing director David Henderson is the third generation of his family to run the business. He said the company tried to set itself apart with “superior product quality, our innovative manufacturing processes and our first class customer service”. Mr Henderson said the company wanted to continue its growth in the UK and Ireland as the sector continues to improve. He said the firm had added around 40 new jobs.
SG Civil Engineering Ltd in Maghera has developed from a civil engineering contractor to a construction company with a turnover of approximately £45m of which 90% is based in the design and build sector. NI Water is its principal client. The company has also acquired and developed property, and is recent strategic report states that acquiring, developing and reselling property is the group’s objective. The company recently joined the team at NI Water team to celebrate winning a major civil engineering ward for its work to upgrade a pumping station at Luke’s Point, Ballyholme in Bangor.
orthstone (NI) Ltd, a subsidiary of CRH plc, provides goods and services to the construction industry through Farrans Construction, Cubis Industries and Northstone Materials. Farrans Construction is a major operator in conventional contracting, design and build and Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the education, healthcare, utility and infrastructure sectors. It also builds houses. Cubis Industries manufactures and supplies utility chambers and preformed structural products to the communication and utility industries. Northstone Materials is Northern Ireland’s leading provider of quarry products.
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alue department store Heatons (NI) was founded in 1946 in Athlone, Co Westmeath. Today it has grown to 54 Heatons stores, including 10 stores across Northern Ireland and 28 SportsWorld stores. The Heatons group is now one of Ireland’s fastest growing department store businesses and Ireland’s third largest non-food retailer, employing more than 2,000 people. Newcastle United boss and Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley turned his majority share in Heatons into full ownership last year. Through SportsDirect Ashley has built up an enterprise with a market value of £2.4bn.
ulti Packaging Solutions Belfast was originally named Chesapeake Belfast and, going further back, was part of the former locally owned Boxmore companies which were bought by the US Chesapeake Corporation. The facility was built in 1999 by Field Boxmore and acquired by Chesapeake in 2002. The company is based in Newtownabbey. The facility produces self-adhesive labels and patient information leaflets for pharmaceutical products. It also manufactures more than 500 million folding cartons per year for various customers in Europe.